Category: Workshops
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A workshop with firsts
Sadly another workshop is over. The energy of the studio is now up to me! Such enjoyable company and such difference in the weavers and their styles on the loom. It was also a workshop of firsts. Emily has been building up her skills and confidence in Saori weaving and after orienting herself to colours…
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#Whyiloveweaving
You’ll notice the hashtag # in the header. It means ‘alert’ to humans and ‘sort’ and ‘curate’ to the bots, all in one little hash. Even though the trend in writing everywhere is to to shorten everything, leading to confusion at times, IMHO. We’ve now come to saying the word ‘hashtag’ before announcing something either…
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Bias. What’s not to like?
Indeed. The Bias to Wear workshop is now over but I leave you with a few photos of the great afternoon. This bias technique for clothing was one I learnt recently at Saori in Japan. Its beauty isn’t the fact that you can make bias clothing, of course you can in many ways. For me it’s the calculation…
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Workshop buzz
This weekend saw the end of another fantastic workshop in the studio here at Old Bar. It’s always a bit lonely going back to my empty studio after such a flurry of creative energy…but then I have all that yarn to get weaving with! Deb is the co-chair for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. A…
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Buttony, wavy, ribby and wide weaves
Yet another magical workshop came to a close too quickly over the weekend. Several of the participants were Sturtees and returnees. Daisy came to work on a special buttony weave which incorporated her mother’s buttons in a bed runner. Rather than stitch them onto the two metre plus cloth after weaving it, we decided to have…
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Workshops without work
Another workshop in the weekend inspired fresh ideas in the studio. It’s like ‘there’s nothing new’- but there is, at least to me. Ruth and Anna came equipped with their own yarn ways and ready to re-purpose jewellery in their work. Diane wove a bag textile enhancing the jute textures throughout the cloth featuring pops of colours,…
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Studio time
I’ve had lots of studio visitors over the last couple of months. Aside from planned weekend workshops I’m experimenting with the viability of day sessions now and again. Individual tuition is always available as many people want to know more about how to warp and use the loom for their own work. But it’s always nice…
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To teach…or not
Just what is teaching? It means different things to different people. Seeing weavers and weavers-to-be coming to my studio is more like greeting friends and giving them the opportunity to ‘remember’ how they can create with yarn and thread. Isn’t opportunity and exposure the first aspect of learning. Finding out what you like to do…
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Getting beyond at Sturt Winter School 2016
Off and away again at Sturt Winter School just keeps getting better. This year we were in a larger room within the Frensham Girls school rather than the traditional, once was a, weavers studio in the Craft centre. It seems a long time since I’ve posted up new pics but I seem to have been…